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MONDRIAN SESSIONS WITH IAMSOUND

September 17th, 2010 · No Comments

L.A. likes to party at hotels. It’s like going on vacation for a couple hours except usually without a free buffet or conga lines. Until that happens, hanging out by the pool and looking at each other affords plenty good times. IAMSOUND Records is setting up Mondrian Sessions, a series of free poolside performances at [...]

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FOOL'S GOLD: FOOL'S GOLD

October 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Live, Fool’s Gold turns a room upside down with sexy hip-rolling, but on the recording the details pull dainty flower petals from peduncle. Chanting and drums support the sunshine on “The World Is All There Is,” urging it to peek over the smoggy mountains of L.A. just as it does in Africa and China and Brazil. “Poseidon” evokes some Far East feelings before “Yam Lo Moshech” inconspicuously strolls over to Stevie Wonder-land, then unfurls into the stormy, horny “Night Dancing.” (I mean “horny” like the brass kind. Okay, the kinky kind too. Sex at this intensity is awesome.)

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FOOL'S GOLD TO RELEASE DEBUT ON IAMSOUND IN SEPTEMBER

June 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

paul rodriguez Download: Fool’s Gold “Surprise Hotel” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the self-titled full-length due Sept. 29 on IAMSOUND) L.A. Afro-pop band Fool’s Gold—including such vital L.A. musicians as Luke Top and Brad Caulkins, and interviewed by L.A. RECORD here—will be releasing their debut full-length on the formidable IAMSOUND label, noted [...]

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TELEPATHE: CAN I HAVE A BLOBAR?

June 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments

It’s good to admire Kate Bush. Telepathe knows what’s up, and while they’re not ‘Wuthering Heights’ anywhere, the girls throw down a dance number in their ‘So Fine’ music video. Cross-breed Bush with Dre and a little Byrne and chop until you’ve got a whole new mutant, and that will make Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gangnes a pair of happy mother fuckers. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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